Trinity Rep has announced its 2021-2022 in-person season.
Trinity Rep in Providence has announced that live, in-person shows are coming back starting with A Christmas Carol in November. The plays in our 2021-22 Season excite us as art-makers, story-tellers, and community-builders. They embody both the intimacy and the spectacle that exist only in the theater. They will inspire us to think differently about our world and our place in it. These are plays that allow us to celebrate our shared humanity, and shine a light on experiences and worlds different from ours, says Trinity. And what’s more, we will do all of these things together – with you. We will rediscover the magic of the communal experience that is live theater. Soon, theater will be live again, and we will all get to live again, the added.
Montanaro lands at RIPTA
Former top State House staffer Frank Montanaro has landed a new job at RIPTA as the Executive Director of Facilities and Maintenance. His salary is $113,100.97.
Under Mattiello, Montanaro served as the head of the Joint Committee on Legislative Services. In that role, he earned $167,948.56 according to state records.
One controversy centered around Montanaro receiving $50,000 in free tuition.
After much outrage and a State Police investigation, he later agreed to pay portions of those funds back and notified Rhode Island College of his plans to repay $41,083 of the nearly $50,000 in free tuition he received.
In 2019, Montanaro was involved in a controversy between Mattiello and the RI Convention Center Authority. In his role as chair of the JCLS, he pressed for an audit of the Authority after the organization disciplined a close political ally of Mattiello.
PROVIDENCE Frank Montanaro s days at the State House have been numbered since former House Speaker Nicholas Mattiello was defeated at the polls in November.
After months of rumors about where he might land, the former state representative from Cranston - and namesake son of a once-powerful labor leader - put in his last day at the State House on Friday.
He left quietly, without fanfare in a state Capitol building still closed to the public.
Montanaro headed business operations for Rhode Island s $46 million a year General Assembly.
As the $167,948 a year executive director of the Joint Committee on Legislative Services (JCLS), he was in charge of hiring, firing and payroll for General Assembly employees and the legislature s army of contractors, from the ever-present construction crews to the redistricting whiz the lawmakers re-hired this year to crunch census numbers.